LVM question. Missing about 11GB of Space..

[Michael D. Setzer II]

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On 29 Oct 2005 at 19:05, Andy Green wrote:

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> Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> 
> > Thanks, that explains why it was setup that way, but it was done 
> > automatically with the installation of the Fedora, so can it be 
> > changed after the fact?? Or is there a way to atleast blank out the 
> 
> tune2fs -m 0 /dev/hda2
> 
> should do this.  However... the reservation of this space for processes
> running under the flag of root is actually useful, especially if
> processes running as something else have managed to exhaust all the
> apparently availble space on your drive... you can still log in as root
> and have some room to manouever.
> 

I wasn't looking at going ot 0, but what would be a more reasonable 
number than 12GB. Even the 12GB would be fine, if there was a 
way to make all or most of it nulls, so it would compress greatly The 
rest of the drives 206GB of space was all nulls, and compress very 
well. 

Thanks.



> -Andy
> 


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